[Xymon] Xymon 4.3.10 and "multi-source status" errors

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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On 12/11/2012 03:22 PM, cleaver at terabithia.org wrote:
>> My xymond test is often yellow, and near as I can tell, the
>> reason is often that I have so-called "multi-source statuses."
>> However, the "second" source is the Xymon server, and this
>> appears to happen most often when tests are disabled (as the blue
>> status comes from the Xymon server). Should I be ignoring this?
>> Is there a misconfiguration somewhere that has this server not
>> properly identifying messages from itself?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> 
> 
> Not sure entirely what you're referring to here... Can you provide
> sample output from the different tests?

If you click on the "xymond" dot, I get the following much of the way
down the page (you can see this on yours too, but it will be blank
most likely):

Multi-source statuses
  www-test.umdnj.edu:conn   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 130.219.XXX.XXX
  www-test.umdnj.edu:cpu    reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:disk   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:files  reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:fma    reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:ftp    reported by 10.32.5.120 and 130.219.XXX.XXX
  www-test.umdnj.edu:memory reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:msgs   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:ports  reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:procs  reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:raid   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:telnet reported by 10.32.5.120 and 130.219.XXX.XXX
  www-test.umdnj.edu:temp   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:vmio   reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106
  www-test.umdnj.edu:zfs    reported by 10.32.5.120 and 10.32.5.106

...(the former is the Xymon server) and I just figured out the
specific case that causes it. If you disable the server with
"$XYMONHOME/server/bin/xymon $XYMONDISP 'disable host.domain.com* 5m
Testing' etc. instead of using the GUI, you will see this. It appears
that doing it via the GUI does not result in this happening. Bug of
feature?

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